Best way to approaching record retreval.

[Izod]

I want to put the minutes of meetings on the web site. Keeping them for
a few years. That would
be about 25 - 30 2-3 page documents, in date sequence. What's the best
format (approach) Any Ideas for me. Thanks a ton.

Izod

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

I want to put the minutes of meetings on the web site. Keeping them for a
few years. That would
be about 25 - 30 2-3 page documents, in date sequence. What's the best
format (approach) Any Ideas for me. Thanks a ton.

My thoughts are to save them as PDF.

Create a folder named minutes and store them in here with the date as the
file name
e.g.
minutes/25-03-2007.pdf
minutes/22-04-2007.pdf
minutes/20-05-2007.pdf

Then create links to them of the form
<a href="minutes/25-03-2007.pdf">Minutes of 25 March 2007</a>
<a href="minutes/22-04-2007.pdf">Minutes of 22 April 2007</a>
<a href="minutes/20-05-2007.pdf">Minutes of 20 May 2007</a>

 

[Izod]

Thanks Trevor. I've been putting them out as a PDF file, each time they
come out. Makes sense to me. Thanks for your thoughts.

Izod

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

better:
minutes/2007-25-03.pdf
they'd sort better that way.




| | >I want to put the minutes of meetings on the web site. Keeping them for
a
| >few years. That would
| > be about 25 - 30 2-3 page documents, in date sequence. What's the best
| > format (approach) Any Ideas for me. Thanks a ton.
|
| My thoughts are to save them as PDF.
|
| Create a folder named minutes and store them in here with the date as the
| file name
| e.g.
| minutes/25-03-2007.pdf
| minutes/22-04-2007.pdf
| minutes/20-05-2007.pdf
|
| Then create links to them of the form
| <a href="minutes/25-03-2007.pdf">Minutes of 25 March 2007</a>
| <a href="minutes/22-04-2007.pdf">Minutes of 22 April 2007</a>
| <a href="minutes/20-05-2007.pdf">Minutes of 20 May 2007</a>
|
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| Trevor Lawrence
| Canberra
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| MVP Web Site http://trevorl.mvps.org
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[Trevor Lawrence]

better:
minutes/2007-25-03.pdf
they'd sort better that way.

True,

I thought of that , but I didn't want to complicate matters. It's bad enough
that US and Australian dates are different (i.e. mm/dd/yy vs dd/mm/yy).

But actually yyyy-mm-dd is good. It is the way I sort any files of this
type, anyway

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

My accountant drives me nuts when she sends me monthly files with all
different file naming conventions (or lack thereof). I need to find a batch
file re-namer (like you can do with IrFanview but for regular
files)...cause it's a pain in the but trying to find a file from 2 years ago
amongst a zillion with diff names.


|
| | > better:
| > minutes/2007-25-03.pdf
| > they'd sort better that way.
|
| True,
|
| I thought of that , but I didn't want to complicate matters. It's bad
enough
| that US and Australian dates are different (i.e. mm/dd/yy vs dd/mm/yy).
|
| But actually yyyy-mm-dd is good. It is the way I sort any files of this
| type, anyway
|
| --
| Trevor Lawrence
| Canberra
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| MVP Web Site http://trevorl.mvps.org
|
|

 

[Izod]

Exactly... I use "070604" Yr Mo Da. Keeps them in order and I have
a couple of digits left for coding different things on the same date and
still keep it in 8 characters...


Izod